Transformer Blowup causes fire in a backyard.

Cell phone video clips from a Westmont, IL neighborhood backyard transformer blow up. Cause is uncertain but I offered my help to the neighbors who's backyard was kitty-corner to the one with the transformer in it and they mentioned many possible dead trees next door. You can see the lines down on their fence in the next to last clip. The house directly behind the transformer had a trampoline (with protective net around it) that seems to have suffered heat damage. Fire crews were on-site in minutes and had the flames out in minutes, but not before neighbors got pretty scared about the potential spread of the fire. Flames were easily more than 10 feet high at one point. The home owners were not in evidence from what I was able to learn.

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• Transformer
• Blowup
• Electricity
• caused
• Fire